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The Search For the Fountain of Youth – Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Enterprise

Steve Blank

If you’ve been reading my book on Customer Development and follow my work on Market Type , this type of innovation is best for adding new products to existing markets. In fact the people a large firm needs for this kind of innovation looks suspiciously like startup founders and the processes needed look like Customer Development.

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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

I read a ton of existing literature and came up with a formal methodology for search I called Customer Development. In 2003 U.C. Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development at Haas business school. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

I read a ton of existing literature and came up with a formal methodology for search I called Customer Development. In 2003 U.C. Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development at Haas business school. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

The original Hewlett Packard which made test and measurement products was spun-out and renamed Agilent. Agilent is a $5.8 After failing dismally at making disposable digital cameras in 2003 Pure Digital Technologies reinvented their company in 2007 to make the Flip line of camcorders. However, no markets last forever.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

One good example is the way in which we''ve adjusted the length of different phases of our agile sprints. We don''t follow a set agile methodology, but rather follow a more home-grown, minimal version of various approaches. But that doesn’t mean that we don’t take these ideas seriously.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Even though I had done it before, I had never heard the term sharding before joining Google (early 2003) so I always thought the term originated there. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? January 7, 2009 9:28 PM Raph said. Eric, I stop by regularly! Expo SF (May.

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The Lean LaunchPad Online

Steve Blank

I read a ton of existing literature and came up with a formal methodology for search I called Customer Development. That resulted in a new process for Search: Customer Development + traditional product management/Waterfall Engineering. And in 2003 the Haas Business School at U.C. He called it the “Lean Startup.”.

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